Tak! commented on Litany for a Broken World by Karen Conlin (Entangled Realities, #1)
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Now it's up to the vagaries of luck & timing. I've done everything I can to make this book the best it can be.
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Happy Book Birthday to me.
Now it's up to the vagaries of luck & timing. I've done everything I can to make this book the best it can be.
(3 stars = I liked it)
Three time periods are braided together by an ancient Greek tale: 15th century Constantinople, the modern day, and a space-faring future. Elaborate but tenuous. On their own each story has potential, but together they don't quite make a whole. Like Cloud Atlas but less enthralling.
Reading time 7 days, 89 pages/day
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Autobiography of a woman who was a committed & diligent National Socialist (#Nazi), of her experience in youth work & propaganda, and her journey coming to terms with the truth of what she participated in. Description of the clinical dispossession of the Poles is disturbing (and new to me), as is the readiness with which everyday mediocre people were led into misguided beliefs, alternative facts & constrained thinking, to do prosaic work with horrifyingly evil outcomes.
Reading time 11 days, 26 pages/day
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